The Transformation of Black Music includes a full spectrum of black musics from four continents as it argues for a re-codification of black musics and performer

Powerful and embracive, The Transformation of Black Music explores the full spectrum of black musics over the past thousand years as Africans and their descenda

Covering the vast and various terrain of African American music, this text begins with an account of the author's own musical experiences with family and friend

Black Music Matters: Jazz and the Transformation of Music Studies is one of the first books to promote the reform of music studies with a centralized presence o

Mark Anthony Neal reads the story of black communities through the black tradition in popular music. His history challenges the view that hip-hop was the first